USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Cahill Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Birch Creek District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Cahill, Crown Point Mine Claims, Peer Prospect, Two Watts Claims, Aw Claims, Mcginness Prospect, Galliger Group, Cahill Claims, Millsite
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 35 T18N R44E. Gold silver Deposit: The mine is developed by two adits and about 2000 ft of underground workings along a steeply dipping north-striking vein in quartz monzonite. Gold was deiscovered here in 1916. ; info.src : 1 pub lit the vein str…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 4 source records,
noting 2000 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Simpson Park Canyon , 1989
- Adit : Simpson Park Canyon , 1989
- Adit : Simpson Park Canyon , 1989
- Shaft : Simpson Park Canyon , 1989
View individual source records (8)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
· length 2000 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Sec 35 T18N R44E. Gold silver Deposit: The mine is developed by two adits and about 2000 ft of underground workings along a steeply d… -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Sec 35 T18N R44E. Gold silver Deposit: The mine is developed by two adits and about 2000 ft of underground workings along a steeply dipping north-striking vein in quartz mon…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Fluorite
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (2)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59833
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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